Dhurmsala Church. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down the mountainside to the church of St John in the Wilderness below. The Viceroy Lord Elgin is buried in the church.
Temple at Nugger [Nagar]. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the sanctuary tower of the temple, with its characteristic wooden superstructure: 'In the evening I went on to Nugger, fifteen miles further up the valley, and some 1,500 feet above the river...The temples of Koolloo have a curious kind of wooden...
Genre: Landscape Photography View across fields towards the cluster of houses of the village of Khibbar, reached by Egerton on 10 July: 'In Khiebar there are twenty houses belonging to landowners, and thirty of forty more inhabited by their dependants and artizans. Across a little ravine, front...
Kee Monastery. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the monastery buildings at ki, clustered on a steep conical hill: 'July 16th. Marched to Kazé...About four miles from Khiebar was the monastery or Gonpa of Kee, the largest in Spiti. It is built on a small isolated hill, and is extremely peculiar and pic...
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the monastery and other buildings, perched on the mountainside over looking the cliffs: 'July 18th...The fort, monastery, and village of Dhunkur are most picturesquely situated on a bluff of conglomerate limestone, which is connected with the uplands by a na...
Marshall House, Alexandria, Va. Photographer: Pywell, William R.
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Genre: War Photography View of Marshall House, standing on a corner, with shops on either side: 'The Marshall House, at the commencement of the war, was a dingy old hotel, kept by a man generally known in that section by the name of Jim Jackson. It was in this building that Col. Ellsworth of th...
Fairfax Court House, Va. June, 1863. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
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Genre: War Photography View looking towards the brick courthouse, with troops on horseback beside the well in the foreground: 'The village of Fairfax Court-House, Virginia, eighteen miles from Washington, was, previous to the rebellion, one of the loveliest of the State … Each of the many comma...